Spawned predoctoral grants in which taxpayers help fund researchers’ obtaining Ph.D.'s by experimenting on animals, thus breeding the next generation of animal experimenters

Predoctoral Grants for Obtaining Taxpayer-Assisted Ph.D.'s

Did you know that NIH helps "underrepresented" researchers obtain their Ph.D.'s by funding predoctoral grants that involve experiments on animals? As families worry about how to pay for college tuition, NIH helps animal experimenters obtain their Ph.D.'s with grants that would pay for two or three years of tuition at top-tier universities.

IDA's Top 10 List includes one of these experiments and mentions another.

These grants also help to breed the next generation of animal experimenters, who in turn can mentor and influence young people – from high school students attending career day in a Minnesota school district to college students taught by a newly-minted Ph.D. who is now an Assistant Professor of Psychology and wants to expand her prenatal drug exposure experiments on rodents that had been funded by one of these NIH predoctoral grants.

It is the policy of In Defense of Animals to no longer use language that accepts the current concept of animals as property, commodities and/or things. Rather than refer to ourselves or others as "owners" of animals we share our lives with, we now refer to ourselves and others as "guardians" of our animal friends and to animals as "he" or "she" rather than "it."

"Animals have been regarded as property for way too long. It's high time we took on a more loving and responsible relationship with our kindred beings in the web of life on this beautiful planet. I always think and act as a guardian towards my kindred beings, never as their owner."

Jim Mason, author, An Unnatural Order

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